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As Twitter continues its efforts to crack down on trolls, abuse and bots, the platform has this week updated its tweet reporting options, which will now enable users to provide more details on the nature of the specific issue at hand.

Activity that attempts to manipulate or disrupt Twitter’s service is not allowed. We remove this when we see it.

"Often, high-profile Twitter users will see replies to their tweets promoting the spammers’ content - for example, check any of @elonmusk’s thread for crypto scammers’ tweets."

The expanded, more specific reporting options are the latest in Twitter's push to clean-up its platform. Twitter has long been criticized for its perceived inaction on this front, but over the last year, it has been making progress.

While you could justifiably argue that Twitter had not been pushing to address such concerns before, it's clear that they are taking action now.

This latest update is another step towards detecting and eliminating such behavior. Twitter still has a long way to go (according to research from FactCheck.me, around 60% of the Twitter conversation relating to the caravan of Central American migrants making their way towards the US border is currently being driven by bots), but Twitter is clearly making a concerted effort to improve.

And that could deliver significant benefits - for both marketers and regular users - in future.